Well done DevTeam, the new sky effects look fantastic (EMF-L sunset over Bandirna)

KTO TASMO (TE by Bloodhound) outbound from Fukuoka

All the best,

Uwe

!

2021-10-24_161221.png

Having good fun and enjoying a nice view for any sniper pod user in Lorik’s EMF-L “red sky” campi (day 5).

All the best,

Uwe

More sunset impressions from EMF-L

Hi folks,

some team members have reported issues trying to download & seed the 4.36 torrent using the trusty cross-platform “transmission” torrent client.

I’ve looked into the issue and it might be related to 4.36 being a “hybrid v2” torrent file which transmission doesn’t support (yet) in its current version, however a patch will be included in the next release:

https://github.com/transmission/transmission/pull/1964

If you are having issues downloading BMS 4.36 using transmission please consider an alernative client like vuze or qbittorrent (also cross-platform) which support this format already.

Thanks for your understanding & all the best,

Uwe

And a “BMS on other platforms” section please while we’re at it where we can organize all the info relating to running BMS on WINE, parallels, as a dedicated server and so on?

Thanks for your consideration!

Uwe

Hi folks,

thanks to @MaxWaldorf the new forum comes with a plugin which allows easy “hands off the mouse” keyboard shortcuts for several forum functions.

Please find below the list of keyboard shortcuts I’ve been able to find so far, and please feel free to add any others you may come across.

Alt-t: open “tag” page
Alt-p: open “popular” page
Alt-g: open “groups” page
Alt-o: open “options” (profile) page?
Alt-s: open “users” page
Alt-h: open “home” / “categories” page
Alt-n: open “notifications” page

“?”: open nodeBB keyboard plugin “Help” page
j / k: move up / down in the list of topics / replies
Alt-u: List of unread topics
Alt-r: List of recently changed topics
r: reload page
t / b: go to top / bottom of page
Alt-Enter: Reply to topic / post

Ctrl-Enter: Send reply (use in post editor)

Enter: enter / display topic

Backspace: Up one level (back to topic list)
Alt-c: Open chat screen

If you would like to remap these shortcuts to other keys (or maybe you have been using my greasemonkey script on the old forum pages for easy keyboard navigation), then I have good news for you: A customized version of this script is also available for greasemonkey / tampermonkey on all half-way modern browsers which will bring back all the old keyboard mappings to the way they worked on the old forum.

You can find the script here:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433433-nodebb-remap-shortcuts

I’ve also included the source code below (make sure to replace “hoover” with your username for the chat shortcut to work as described in the comment).

// ==UserScript==
// @name                nodeBB remap shortcuts
// @namespace	        https://hoover.gplrank.de/
// @description	        remaps various nodeBB keyboard shortcuts to simple keypresses
// @description         author: hoover
// @description         You'll need to replace "hoover" with your forum username for the "chat" link to work below.
// @include             http*://forum.falcon-bms.com/*
// 
// @version 0.0.2.20211018140000
// ==/UserScript==
 
function findTopicLink()
{
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
    var href="/unread";
    for (var i = 0  ; i < anchors.length ; i++) {
       href = anchors[i].getAttribute('href');
       if (href) {
          if(href.match(/topic/)) {
              return(href);
             break ;
 
             }
          }
       }
}
 
var key_map = {
    "N" : "/unread",
    "R": "/recent",
    "P": "/popular",
    "H": "/",
    "C": "/user/hoover/chats",
    "S": "/search",
    "M": "/notifications",
    "G": findTopicLink()
    }
 
// stolen shamelessly from userscript.org's facebook key navigation
// Thanks to Droll Troll
 
function OnKeyUp(e)
{
  
 
    if (String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode) in key_map && 	
	(typeof e.target.type == "undefined" || (e.target.type != "text" && e.target.type != "textarea")) && 
	!e.altKey && !e.ctrlKey && e.keyCode <= 90)
    {
	window.location.replace(key_map[String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode)])
    }
}
 
 
window.addEventListener("keyup",function(event) { OnKeyUp(event); },false)

All the best & I hope you enjoy’ll enjoy easy, hands-off-the-mouse keyboard navigation from now on

Uwe

@Radium

take good care of yourself & thanks for all you have done, are doing and will be doing for the BMS community

Uwe

late afternoon / evening strike mission in Lorik’s EMF-L campi “double front”

All the best,

Uwe

Hi folks,

I’ve made some tests with BMS 4.36 on Linux / WINE. After installing Falcon 4.0 using my GOG.com installer version, the BMS installer starts up fine, checksums look ok but as soon as I start the installation process, I get a message about the installer being unable to create the “User/Config” directory and the installer just hangs afterwards until I kill it.

I’ve tried manually creating the User/Config dir in my WINEPREFIX directory (default ~/.wine), but that hasn’t helped, either. The Installer will run but only 16kb are allocated in the bms install directory which is, well, not very much

Wine version: 5.0 (ubuntu / Linux Mint)
Emulated windows version: win7

I’d love to hear of your experiences with 4.36 on Linux.

Cheers & all the best,

Uwe

Thanks for the link!

Uwe

@TxMtb

Hmm, that’s not working for me… I get a ton of weirdly-named files and directories, not a single concise “Icons”-directory (I’m using 7z to extract the rar archive).

Cheers, Uwe

@Cop23rd

is that a plugin for the Stream Deck or something else entirely?

Thanks, Uwe

@jack72

I don’t think the stream deck can emulate dx buttons / events (yet), so you’ll have to use a “full” key file for BMS to be able to use all the functions.

Cheers, Uwe

Me too, still getting my head around all the functions but it works really nicely. @MaxWaldorf would it be possible to share your profile?

All the best,

Uwe

@Radium

take good care of yourself & thanks for all you have done, are doing and will be doing for the BMS community

Uwe

@airtex2019 said in Unable to download from Torrent.:

@Quasi_Stellar is there a specific version to recommend?

https://www.fosshub.com/qBittorrent.html

(If I understand correctly BMS requires the new “v2.0” bittorrent protocol? Is that the RC_2_0 edition listed there?)

I’m technically deep on most things but I know next to nothing about bittorrent protocol…

I think the later updates are compatible again with older clients (like transmission), but yeah, the U0 / full installer requires a client that speaks v2.

Cheers, Uwe

@foxster

thanks foxster, I’ll keep looking into the issue. Maybe I messed up something that I’m not aware of, maybe the mic’s gone bad or whatever… I’ll keep you posted

PS: Could you add the process

Falcon BMS Test.exe

as a default choice for the library / setup? Thanks!